Rail tie and fastener.



S. REVAY.

RAIL TIE AND FASTENER.

APPLICATION men 14.9.1912.

1,266,991 Pat ented May 21,1918.

gnve'n T01 UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.

STEFAN REVAY, 0F J'OHNSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA.

RAIL TIE AND FASTENER.

Application filed January 9, 1918.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STEFAN REVAY, a sub} ject of the King of Hungary, residing at Johnstown, in the county of Cambria and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful. Improvements in Rail Ties and Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

The primary object of this invention is the provision of a form of railway tie and means for securing rails thereon which is simple in construction and possesses great strength as well as permitting the HSSQHL bling and disassembling of the structure at will Wlmnever desired.

A further object of the device is to provide a ready means for detachably securing rails in their operative positions upon the ties of a roadbed without the necessity of perforating the rails, it only being required to employ a wrench in applying or detaching the device.

In the drawing forming a part of this application and in which like designating characters refer to corresponding parts throughout the several views,

Figure 1 is an elevational View of a railway rail operatively secured upon ties after the manner of my invention.

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view thereof taken upon line IIII of Fig. 1.

Fig. 8 is a horizontal sectional view taken upon line III-I1I of Fig. 1, and

Fig. 4 is a perspective View of one of the locking members employed with the device.

My invention broadly consists of means for supporting railway rails such as 10 upon the roadbed 11 in track formation and comprises metal ties 12 of I-beam form with the rail detachably secured thereon by means of locking members 13.

These locking members 13 are in the form of complemental plates 14 having transverse shoulders 15 at one end thereof and with a hook 16 laterally projecting from one end of such shoulder, the body of each plate being provided with a square perforation 17. The rail such as 10 is mounted upon the top 18 of the tie 12, transversely thereof in the usual manner, and fish plates 19 having base flanges 20- are oppositely engaged with the rail 10 with the flanges 20 thereof seated upon the base flanges 21 of the rail and with the upper edge portions 22 of the fish plates seated beneath the tread 23 of the rail.

The locking members 13 being comple- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 21, 1918.

Serial No. 211,028.

mentally formed as heretofore described, a pair of said members 13 are arranged in engagement With each other flatly contacting the web 23' of the tie 12 and with the hooks 16 of the locking members projecting upwardly through slots 24 in the top 18 of the tie While the angular end portions 25 ofthe hooks engage within sockets 26 formed in the edges of the fish plate flan cs 20.

A bolt 27 having a square shank is pd sitioned through the perforations 17 of the locking members and also through a squared opening 28 in the tie web 23'. and. is provided with a lock nut 29 threaded upon its outer end for retaining the locking members upon the tie 12. The locking members 113 are securely held in engagel'nent with each other and mounted upon the tie 12 by the bolt 27, whereby the hook 16 firmly locks the fish plates 19 in contact with the rail 10 thereby preventing any movement of the rail under traflic conditions. It will be seen that by removing the bolt 27, the locking members 13 may be readily released permitting free movement of the rail 10. With my device it is unnecessary to perforate the railway rail so that when my form of tie with its locking members, bolts and fish plates is provided. the railway line may be quickly constructed with the use of only a wrench, while the line may also be readily disassembled by the use of such an implement. It will be seen that the squared perforations 17 and 28 are adapted to main tain the bolt 27 against turning during the operative rotation of the nut 29 thereon. This device is serviceable in connection with the laying of temporary tracks such as those employed for army use and for mine and similar pur oses.

l/Vhat I c aim as new is 1. A device of the class described comprising a railway tie of I-beam formation having vertical perforations through the top thereof, fish plates adapted for engaging railway rails mounted upon the tie provided with marginal sockets, and complementally formed locking members secured to the web of said tie having hooks projecting through the said perforations and seated within the said sockets when the device is operatively assembled.

2. In combination with a railway rail, a supporting I-beam positioned transversely beneath said rail and having perforations through the top of the beam adjacent the opposite sides of the bottom of the rail,

lockin forme members having oomplementally plate portions detaohablylseoured to the Web of said beam and provided with inwardly extending hooks projecting through the said perforations and retainingly overlying the base flanges of said rail.

3. In combination with a railway rail, a supporting I-beam positioned transversely beneath said rail and having perforations through the top of the beam adjacent the opposite sides of the bottom of the rail, lookin members having oomplementally forme d plate portions detaohably secured to the web of said beam and provided with inwardly extending hooks projecting through the said perforations and retainingly overlying the base flanges of said rail, fish plates oppositely positioned against the tread portion and upon the base flanges of said rail and having marginal sockets adjacent said perforations and adapted to re- Copies of this patent may be obtained for oeive the said hooks when the device is assembled.

4. A device of the class described comprising supporting I-beams having spaced perforations through the top thereof, a railway rail transversely mounted upon the top of the beam with its opposite sides arranged inwardly of the outer portions of such perforations, angular fish plates engaging the opposite sides of the rail. having marginal sockets positioned above such perforations, looking plates provided with shoulders positioned in oomplemental arrangement upon the web of the beam, hooks carried by said shoulders projecting through said perforations and seated within the said sookets,and retaining bolts detachably secured through the said beam and plates when the device is assembled.

In testlmony whereof STEFAN REVAY.

I aflix my signature five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

